You can always use Send-MailMessage to send a mail via any SMTP server. If you’d like to use your Outlook client, though, i.e. to keep access to your address books, use your companies Exchange server, or save the mail in your mail history, here is a quick function that shows how:
function Send-OutlookMail { param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] $To, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] $Subject, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] $BodyText, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] $AttachmentPath ) $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application $mail = $outlook.CreateItem(0) $mail.Subject = $Subject $mail.to = $To $mail.BodyFormat = 1 # use 2 for HTML mails $mail.Attachments.Add([object]$AttachmentPath, 1) $mail.building = $BodyText $mail.Display($false) }
This is just a basic template, and you can invest some time to make it better. For example, the current version always requires an attachment. In a more sophisticated version, you can make attachments optional and support multiple attachments. Or find a way to send the mail without user interaction.
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